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Pragmatic Meaning Of Baby Care Gugon Tuhon In Javanese, Devi Kurniawati, Widhyasmaramurti Widhyasmaramurti
Pragmatic Meaning Of Baby Care Gugon Tuhon In Javanese, Devi Kurniawati, Widhyasmaramurti Widhyasmaramurti
International Review of Humanities Studies
Gugon Tuhon (GT) is a Javanese proposition found in the community as a learning tool. This study explains baby care GT in the village of Bulurejo, Kediri, East Java. Currently, GT is poorly understood and obsolete. Therefore, the research problem of this paper is how can the meaning of GT be understood by mothers in the village of Bulurejo and what does the effect of understanding GT? This study used 8 GT from www.sastra.org, and an interview was conducted with a dhukun (traditional healer) to get in-depth data. This study uses qualitative method and Speech Act theory by Austin (1984) …